Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-01-20
DEATHS COLD WAVE
Gen. w. b. Hazen, Chief Signal
Officer of the Army, is Dead.
Brief Sketch OF His Career.

Gen W. b. Hazen, chief signal officer OF
the United States army, died suddenly AT his
home in Washington on the 10Th inst, OF
diabetes coma He had suffered from
diabetes for some years, but OF late had
improved i'm health and strength and
hopes were entertained OF his complete re
covery. At the reception to the diplo.
matte corps given by the president, he
took severe cold, causing him to keep
his bed on the lith. On the 18th inst, he
was up and reported himself much i'm.
proved, saying that he would go To his of
flee on Monday He grew worse and his
physicians were summoned, but IN spite
OF all that skill or science could suggest,
he breathed his last.
Gen. Hazen was born at West Hartford,
Windsor county, Vt, on Sept %, 1870, and
was therefore at the time of his death IN
his 51th year. His early life was passed in
Ohio, to which state his parents moved in
1SS3, and he entered the West Point mill
tary academy from that state on Septem-
Der /, 1851. He was graduate in June
in 1855, and was appointed hrevet Second
Lieutenant in the Fourth United States
Infantry. He served through tue Indian
war in southern Oregon in 1885, and hav-
ing been appointed a Second Lieutenant
i'm the spring in that year he came east
and proceeded to Texas, where his com
pany was stationed. During the two fol
lowing years he was engaged almost con
stantly in active service against the In
dams in Western Texas and New Mexico
and was four times complimented in gen
eral orders from the headquarters OF the
army for bravery and good conduct. Dur
ing this campaign he received a severe
wound in the right side from which he did
Ial.r I'm. Ia
1st of April in that year he was appointed
to full First Lieutenancy; on the 18th OF
Nav TO a Captaincy, and in February. lS6l
he was assigned to the Infantry. Soon
after the breaking out of the civil war he
received leave of absence with authority
to take command OF the Forty-first Re2i
ment Of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On the
Goth of November lie reported to Gen. Bucl
at Louisville, KY, nnd was assigned &c
Gen. Nelson's division, and on the 9th OF
January, 1852, was appointed to command
the Nineteenth Brigade of the Army of the
Ohio. He moved with Gen. Buell's army
to Pittsburgh Landing. took an active part
in the battle of that place and afterwards
served i'm northern Alabama until ordered
TO assume command Of the post of Muir
freesboro. In May, 1852, he was appointed
Brigadier General, but the appointment
was not confirmed until after the battle OF
Stone river, in which General Hazen's
brigade was hotly engaged and rendered
extremely valuable service. He was made
major by brevet in the regular army in
1863 a reward for his courage in the bat title
of Chikamauga. He was commissioned
ma or general of volunteers to rank from
December -, 1861. He was mustered out
of the volunteer service in 1866, and subse-
quently served as colonel Of the thirty
sixth regular infantry, and of the sixth
infantry. During the Franco German war
he was employed in studying the educa-
ton and characteristics OF the French and
German troops and upon his return to the
United States, embodied his observa tions
on those in a book entitled "School and
Army of France and Germany" In 1877
he was appointed military attache to the
United States legation at Vienna, and
three years later to succeed Gen. Myer.
His controversy with Secretary OF War
Lincoln with reference to the Greedy expe-
dition which led to his temporary suspen.
sion and court OF inquiry into his conduct
will be remembered.